PEOPLE v. JENSEN

Docket No. Crim. 5600.

43 Cal.2d 572 (1954)

275 P.2d 25

THE PEOPLE, Respondent, v. RICHARD JOHN JENSEN, Appellant.

Supreme Court of California. In Bank.

October 26, 1954.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

F. Walton Brown and Harold J. Ackerman, under appointment by the Supreme Court, for Appellant.

Edmund G. Brown, Attorney General, and Elizabeth Miller, Deputy Attorney General, for Respondent.


EDMONDS, J.

A jury found Richard John Jensen guilty on each count of an information charging him with robbery, assault with intent to commit murder, and kidnaping for the purpose of robbery. The court ordered that the sentences for the first two offenses run concurrently and for the last offense, following the recommendation of the jury, fixed the penalty at death. The statutory appeal (Pen. Code, § 1239, subd. b) is from the judgment and from an order denying...

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